About 800 people attended a prayer vigil at Monroe Central Junior-Senior High School for the two students killed and one injured in a car-train crash in Farmland.

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Robin Gibson
Muncie Star-Press

FARMLAND -- Drunken driving was a contributing factor in the Oct. 28 car-train crash that left two teenagers dead and another injured, according to police.

Farmland Town Marshal Melvin Nott said Tuesday that tests had determined driver Kristin Kiser, 17, had a blood alcohol level of .14 percent.

Kiser and fellow Monroe Central Junior-Senior High School student Amber Morrow, 17, were both killed when the northbound car driven by Kiser drove onto the Plum Street railroad crossing in front of a westbound train just before 2:30 a.m. on a Sunday. ...